What could possibly go wrong? “Canadian judge orders release of ex-Guantanamo detainee who killed GI,” by Charmaine Noronha, Associated Press, April 24, 2015:
TORONTO — A Canadian judge on Friday ordered the release of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate while he appeals his conviction in a Washington court for war crimes, including killing a U.S. soldier.
Judge June Ross said the terms of Omar Khadr’s release will be determined May 5. Canada’s government said it would appeal the order.
Toronto-born Khadr is in prison in Alberta, serving out an eight-year sentence handed down by a U.S. military commission in 2010. He was convicted of five war-crimes, including throwing a grenade when he was 15 years old that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer in Afghanistan during a 2002 firefight. He spent a decade in Guantanamo Bay.
Khadr, now 28, agreed to a plea deal in 2010 that stipulated he serve one year of his eight-year sentence at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. He has since said he only pleaded guilty to get out of Guantanamo and be sent back to Canada.
Ross said Khadr has a strong basis for appeal and keeping him behind bars would not be in the public interest.
“Omar is fortunate to be back in Canada where we have real courts and real laws,” said Nate Whitling, one of Khadr’s lawyers.
The government has argued Ross had no jurisdiction to hear the unprecedented bail application from an offender convicted abroad and returned to Canada. Giving Khadr bail would undermine Canada’s international relations and obligations, the government argued. It also said Ross should take into account Khadr’s guilty plea to serious offenses.
“We have vigorously defended against any attempt to lessen his punishment,” Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said in a statement announcing the government would appeal.
In court last month, Khadr’s lawyers argued their client has been a model prisoner who poses no threat to the community. They also said the appeal of his conviction by a stands a good chance of success, but was dragging on….
Jay Airahs says
Actually, the real threat IS NOT:
“islamic sharee’a supremacism and violent islamic jihadism.”
The real threat is pretending that is not a weasel inspired JOKE :
1 Muhammad’s claim that he was a prophet (The Big Lie) should deserve anything other than well deserved ridicule.
2 Or believing anyone who claims that all is lost to the slave trade butcher knife so called ‘religion’ that is so fragile that it needs to encourage its Muslims from butchering each other for the sake of Allah or even their own children for attempting to leave Islam.
Jay Airahs says
Correction:
The real threat is pretending that ISLAM is not a weasel inspired JOKE :
Champ says
Exactly, Jay! …islam & company are the *real* enemy ..hear, hear!
Jay Airahs says
The real threat is pretending that ISLAM is not a weasel inspired JOKE :
celticwarriorcanada says
With no disrespect for THE RULE OF LAW,I hope our American friends do not think all us Canadians are as deluded as some of the big players in our legal system . Omar Khader should face death by a Firing Squad . But , obviously it will never happen , so life inprisonment is better than nothing . PRAY that the Harper Conservatives will win their appeal !
Jed says
I think high treason charges would stick. He was assisting forces engaged in hostilities with the Canadian military at the time he was apprehended.
Maybe with a little luck (for us), he will head over to join isis?
mortimer says
The judges don’t realize how evil Islam truly is.
Joseph says
@ celticwarriorcanada With no disrespect for THE RULE OF LAW,I hope our American friends do not think all us Canadians are as deluded as some of the big players in our legal system
Don’t worry, we have the same crap here in the U.S. If anyone should be able to understand how @#ucked-up politicians can be it would be the “eyes open” American citizen.
Most Americans like Canadians and I’m sure most Canadians like Americans EH?
Sorry for the EH, I couldn’t resist. I have great memories of SCTV. I still watch them every once in a while.
mortimer says
Murder is a serious crime. Treason is a serious offense. The perpetrator has no remorse. He is an enemy of Canada. He has pleaded guilty. The public should be defended.
Don McKellar says
Let’s hope that Judge June Ross doesn’t end up with blood on her hands over this.
RG says
@Don McKellar.
Wow! Somehow I’d say she already has blood on her hands! I personally hold every Western political and judicial leader responsible when islamic butchery takes place, because they refuse to condemn the entire concept of islam as insanely INHUMAN!!!
gravenimage says
Canada: Judge orders release of ex-Guantanamo detainee who killed GI
………………………….
This is, of course, *insane*—you let someone out on their own recognizance if they are accused of cheating on their taxes or selling weed, *not* if they were convicted of war crimes and murdering your closest ally’s troops.
duh_swami says
‘Here come da judge’…Judge June is no Judge Judy…Omar is no threat to the community…
Is there an expiration date on jihad? I looked all through the Quran and hadith and can find no mention of an expiration date…
gungadin says
As an “old” guy pushing 80, I really feel badly for my grand kids and the western world. People have got to raise hell with their politicians and do it regularly. Let them know that we’re sick and tired of all the political correctness and coddling of these muslim savages and turn them all back at our borders.
Triciad says
This decision by a Canadian judge has left me speechless! Horrified and ashamed of a system so flawed that it would release a terrorist into our communities , certainly risking our safety.
Dan says
What, stinking, part of, “Muslims can lie if it promotes Allah.” does our moronic society NOT understand?
Whether the Koran says it or not is a freaking moot point.
We’ve got a world wide army of armed to the gills psychotic nut jobs who believe it, act in accordance with it, and slaughter all who don’t agree.
Is there a world wide society of Neville Chamberlains somewhere that I’m unaware of?
rcourtemanche says
A celebrity of the anti-Canadian left.
Khadr is destined to become powerful as a propaganda tool to attack the West; a powerful weapon, not of war but of politics.
Although strongly under his family’s influence, young Khadr enjoyed his terrorist activities. His family’s radical ideologies remain strong to this day while being supported by Canadian social services. He has shown no regret for joining Al-Qaeda, has not denounced Al-Qaeda, has not renounced his father’s terrorism, has not expressed sorrow for his killing of medic Sgt Christopher Spears, hence a fundamental and perpetual terrorist.
Yet, mainstream media, legal establishment, his lawyer Dennis Edney, libertarians, politicians, all self-imposed with Sharia, will continue making a folk hero out of this individual supported by his naïve and treacherous Canadian advisers and fans. What a sorry state of affairs we live in.
BC says
Ross said Khadr has a strong basis for appeal and keeping him behind bars would not be in the public interest.
Sometimes i think I have wondered into the world of Homer Simpson.
Of course the death penalty in these sort of cases would avoid this sort of situation
ninetyninepct says
This whole khadr thing is bullshit. This jerk was trying to kill Americans yet the ignorant Canadian court system treated him like a child. At 15, and if he could have afforded it, khadr could have bought his own female. New young virgins are expensive so likely he would only have been able to afford an older well used female who still had some mileage left. The point is he was not a child and the stupid Canadian court system treated him like he was a Canadian rather than a muslim killer terrorist. In 2010 he got an 8 yr sentence but 5 yrs later a Canadian court over ruled an American court decision and wants this muslim wannabe executioner to go free.
Courts in Canada more and more are of the opinion that they are above the law, that they ARE the law, and that they can let their personal feelings and opinions take precedence. This crap goes as far as the supreme court of Canada where common sense is simply not allowed.
There are an awful lot of Canadians who are arming themselves, primarily for personal protection from the rcmp, the courts and the Liberal and NDP political parties. Google or Bing “High River gun grab” to see first hand how the self entitled cops think and where they feel they can make their own laws. It’s not just muzzies we have to be concerned about. Damn scary.
Triciad says
The liberal media (CBC, CTV, Global) also had a huge part in spreading disinformation about Khadr, they projected him as a poor misguided youth , even using his schoolboy picture to prick the hearts of all unthinking , led by the nose Canadians. We have become lazy in our thinking , if some of us do any original thinking ..Khadr is a threat to our security plain and simple , his family hayes Canada and only stays here because they need our medical system for the disabled brother. I say deport the bunch of them !!!The n keep Khadr in jail for treason!
Walter Sieruk says
No about of time in prison will change a jihadist for the better or cause him to turn from his violent and deadly ways of the jihad. As the ancient Greek poet ,Aristophanes, wrote “The wisest of the wise will never make a crab walk straight.”
profitsbeard says
Why a terrorist who killed a soldier was not executed upon capture demonstrates the suicidal lack of survival instincts ascendant in the West.
Many more will have to die, it seems, before our natural impulse to destroy such terrorists revives.
If it does not, Islam shall triumph, since it’s instincts are strong.
And even a malignant predator that knows what it wants will devour anyone who does not.
Jack Holan says
This is another argument for using the Death Penalty in Capitol Offences, finallity. No, soft judges wthout basis coming behind you using civilian criminal code and applying it to battle field war crimes that they have no clue about including Holder and Obama. They would have benefited from reading the Nuremburg Trials, not the major players, but the lesser knowns.
Jack Holan says
Send the parents and siblings of Christopher Speer to meet face to face with this yo yo Judge and it might sway her “feelings” back to reality.
pongidae rex says
The weaponization of human rights and civil liberties has rendered the West defenseless to Islamist invasion. Absent a change in these laws, especially in Europe, it is illegal for the West to do anything other than to fund a mass migration of the populations of Islamic failed states into Western countries. This is no different than the eve of WWI in Sept 1914 when Europe marched into a ruinous war simply because it was unable to change the verbage in a few ‘mutual defense’ treaties.